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Managing Lean Supply and Innovation: Cross-cultural Knowledge Transfer in an Multi-national Company
(2008)
There is growing evidence that organisations are increasingly using the concept of lean supply to
foster innovation. This paper considers key factors that influence this management approach in
the context of the ...
Building a dolmen: an ISD approach to the management of innovation
(Springer, 2008-10-24)
This paper addresses a ¿challenge in practice¿ by describing the initial stage of an
information systems development (ISD) project to support the management of innovation
within a subsidiary of APC-MGE. To begin with, a ...
A dialogical action research approach to innovation as organisational change.
(Action in Language, Organisations and Information Systems (ALOIS), 2008-05)
This paper argues that dialogical action research (AR) recently proposed by Mårtensson & Lee, provides a novel
framework for both relevant and rigorous collaboration between academics and practitioners. The work is
presented ...
Supply chain transformation in APC Ireland: lean thinking, opposing logics and bricolage.
(ECIS, 2007-06)
This paper presents a number of observations and findings from an ongoing study of supply chain
transformation in a subsidiary of American Power Conversion (APC) located in the West of Ireland.
The study is being carried ...
A coevolving systems approach to the organization of agile software development.
(Institute of Management Sciences, 2009)
Despite the popularity of agile methods in software development and increasing adoption by
organizations there is debate about what agility is and how it is achieved. The debate suffers from a lack
of understanding of ...
The Irish National Innovation System: Structures, Performance and Challenges
(CISC, 2009-07)
This paper deals with three elements of the Irish National Innovation System namely structures, performance and challenges. The paper begins by outlining the policy context and then focuses on technology trajectories and ...
People Management and innovation in Ireland
(2008-01)
The People Management and Innovation survey reports findings from 165 of the top
performing organisations in Ireland. The picture that emerges from the analysis suggests a moderate to low take-up of a full-blown High ...
Third Stream Activities: Company Formation - Issues, Challenges and Implications
(Irish Academy of Management, 2007)
Wireless Valley, Silicon Wadi and Digital Island - Helsinki, Tel Aviv and Dublin and the new economy GPN
(Elsevier, 2004-06)
Hyper-capitalism in global information and communication technology (ICT) markets during the late 1990s created a new global production network, shaped by multinational corporations, international capital flows, and a ...
A Coevolving Systems Approach to the Organization of Agile Software Development
(2009)
Despite the popularity of agile methods in software development and increasing adoption by organizations there is debate about what agility is and how it is achieved. The debate suffers from a lack of understanding of ...